If you look closely at the rough surfaces on the left of the left photo and the right of the right photo, it is clear that the illumination is coming from a different angle. This is obviously because a Martian bumped into the lamp. Why isn't NASA investigating that occurrence?

I wonder what kind of mental jumps are necessary to go from "this is an interesting curiosity and there are no decent pictures of it" to "THEY ARE SPACE MUSHROOMS AND NASA IS A CONSPIRACY!!"

I mean the whole lawsuit seems to be centered on the fact that NASA didn't get good enough pictures to definitively identify the object....but somehow this guy just knows that it is Space Fungus? Does he think he has some sort of metaphysical sympathetic connection to all the fungus in the solar system or what?

This guy sounds like a nut, but if you look at the before picture it does seem like there is a sort of whiter space with crumpled edges where the "rock" has puffy edges 12 days later... as if it were a deflated bag waiting to puff up.

Yeah, he sounds like he's out in left field - to say the least. That said, assuming the rover is still within a day's drive, and that this curiosity wasn't noticed well after the rover had moved on... wouldn't it be reasonable for the team to take a few extra pictures of the thing?

This guy sounds like a nut, but if you look at the before picture it does seem like there is a sort of whiter space with crumpled edges where the "rock" has puffy edges 12 days later... as if it were a deflated bag waiting to puff up.

Probably a coincidence, but REALLY calls out for a closer look.

A new rock landed on top of the flat rock from the first picture, in the 12 day period since first picture was taken. This was big news two weeks ago, and that's what this is all about.

Most likely explanation is that the rover kicked up a rock with its wheels and it landed there. They did drive the rover in between taking those two pictures.

While he does sound a bit crazy, it is worth noting he has a Ph.D. form The Chicago Medical School and did his internship at Yale.

All that says to me is that he or his family has a lot of money.But what do I know, I don't have a PhD nor do I associate with Yale. I'm sure it's a club with 100% sanity for all members, no exceptions, right? :-P

My wife managed the webmaster email for a government agency that I will not name.

She said that she got all manner of crazies who would write to the agency, wondering why they hadn't considered their "perpetual motion machine" or why they refuse to acknowledge the truth or why they didn't visit the Facebook page. She said that one particular person wrote like 200 times and was asking why the Government was putting his ideas down. She said she visited the web site and it looked like it was done in the 90s with colored wallpapers and intensely colored text.

While it may just be a difference in lighting, if you look at the area under the "O" in Before and about a third of the way down, then compare it to the same area under the "E" in After there seems to be a slight depression in the ground. Pretty much what you'd expect if the rover's wheels had kicked up a rock and it bounced into its current position.

While he does sound a bit crazy, it is worth noting he has a Ph.D. form The Chicago Medical School and did his internship at Yale.

Smart people succumb to schizophrenia too.

And let's be honest - it sounds way more than "a bit" crazy, particularly in conjunction with his earlier lawsuits.

It sounds really crazy until:Is it schizophrenia or a total (in his case) distrust of the government?

I mean:

If not trusting the government (in any amount) is schizophrenic, then most, smart, people are schizophrenic to some extent and its just different shades of grey.

Not trusting your government is fine. You probably shouldn't fully trust any person, entity or organization that actively seeks power over you.

But, to try to pass off what this guy is saying and doing (see his past efforts) as total distrust of the government still isn't indicative of a healthy mental state. If what he is doing is down to trust, he has a special case of paranoia.

So... with all the rovering we've done on Mars we have encountered exactly one of these space mushrooms? And in a spot we previously looked at? That seems a bit odd doesn't it? I'd love to hear the logic behind that...

My wife managed the webmaster email for a government agency that I will not name.

She said that she got all manner of crazies who would write to the agency, wondering why they hadn't considered their "perpetual motion machine" or why they refuse to acknowledge the truth or why they didn't visit the Facebook page. She said that one particular person wrote like 200 times and was asking why the Government was putting his ideas down. She said she visited the web site and it looked like it was done in the 90s with colored wallpapers and intensely colored text.

While he does sound a bit crazy, it is worth noting he has a Ph.D. form The Chicago Medical School and did his internship at Yale.

All that says to me is that he or his family has a lot of money.But what do I know, I don't have a PhD nor do I associate with Yale. I'm sure it's a club with 100% sanity for all members, no exceptions, right? :-P

A tangent, but this bugged me. Having a PhD or interning at Yale does not imply he has a wealthy or privileged family, not even a little bit. To get into a STEM PhD program you have to actually be smart and have the grades and know-how to back it up, your family has little or nothing to do with it. Now, in the humanities, where funding is tight and most graduate students don't receive a stipend without teaching courses or earning a fellowhip, having a wealthy family is a much bigger benefit.